An action group claims a report has vindicated its campaign to get a compete ban on lorries using their village as a rat run.

People living in Weston-on-the-Green set up the B430 Action Group because they were fed up with motorists driving through the village to avoid the A34/M40 junction at Wendlebury.

Now a report by William Halcrow for Oxfordshire County Council on the medium to long-term strategy for roads in the county has highlighted problems on the B430.

The road runs from junction 10 of the M40 at Ardley, through Middleton Stoney and Weston-on-the-Green to join the A34. The report forecast a 62 per cent increase in traffic across the county by 2021, and said junction nine of the M40 with the A34 could exceed capacity in the next seven years.

It also highlighted a 50 per cent increase on the B430 and proposed a weight restriction on both roads, which would discourage traffic and reduce congestion.

B430 Action Group chairman John Mair said: "This official report confirms what we have been saying over and over again.

"A one way ban of HGVs on the B430 makes no sense. Our surveys show the traffic is just as heavy northbound as it is southbound. "Thames Valley Police accept the case for a two way ban, Oxfordshire's own consultants now accept it too. The A34 and junction nine of the M40 are Weston's problem. As long as they continue to be used to capacity and beyond, then the B430 will be the rat run of choice to and from junction ten for HGVs and others vehicles.

"The Highways Agency and the county council have a duty to get the junction right, but they also have a duty to the villagers of Weston to make sure that the B430 does not become a parallel M40 when the big works on junction nine take place next year.

"The B430 Action group is glad that Weston's HGV problem has received official recognition. The county must now open its ears and do all it can to relieve the HGV hell of Weston very soon.''

County area engineer Colin Carritt said the transport network review had been looking at the county's road network and investigating places that needed modifications or changes.